Re:iMac Pro Available Now
by tinus_hn on Thursday December 14, 2017 @10:24AM
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Pro people don’t upgrade parts, it costs too much time and is too risky. Pro people just upgrade the whole machine. And they don’t care if it costs $500 extra if it saves them a few hours of grief.
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Pro people keep expensive machines running for a long time before they buy a new one. If one part goes bad, they'll buy a replacement part before they buy a new machine. So the machine has to be easy to service.
If one part goes bad, you send the machine to the shop for repairs and either loan a temp replacement or shuffle your work to other machines.
No serious pro should have only one high price asset.
What shop have you been to? Even the multi-million dollar shops have zombie rooms where they throw old out of warranty computers up to the ceiling. They will cannibalize two machines to make add to the render farm. I have seen them add memory switch out hard drives.
When people went to 4K they bought new cameras and they upgraded their computers with more ram, bigger drives and new cards.